r/LocalLLaMA discovered the EU transparency code and realized watermarking may reach open weights.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Mistral are all Section 1 signatories of the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and the 315-upvote, 246-comment thread centers on whether open-weight models from those companies carry watermarking too (European Commission). The code isn't new: released June 10, declared adequate by the Commission and AI Board July 8–9, ~190 organisations signed by end of July. So this is community discovery, not news. Whether Article 50 marking obligations bind downloaded open weights is precisely what those 246 comments are arguing about, and it's genuinely unsettled. Meanwhile the watermark-removal repo above took 634 stars in a day.